Sunday, August 23, 2009

The end

So the competition has ended. We flew 4 tasks in very different weather conditions, from mild weather caused by westerly winds to more complicated flying in easterly winds. We try to use XCskies (www.xcskies.com) but it seems that their model is not very good for Posočje area, steep, rocky mountains and valley systems are probably to much complicated for those general models.
The overall winner is Primož Gričar (Slovenia), winnig all three out of four tasks. Second place was Thomas Weissenberge (Austria) and third place belongs to Gerd Doenhuber (Germany).
Two pilots, Gerolf Heinrichs and Flemming Lauridsen, showed great sportsmanship when landing in the middle of the third task to assist the pilot, who crashed landed on the hill side. Fortunately pilot was rescued by the mountain rescue service and suffered only minor injuries.
Overall we had a great competition with a lot of friendship among the pilots and organizers, who have learned some lessons, just to improve next year competition.

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